Build 2012

At Build, we'll dive deep to cover all the areas you care about. How to design and build beautiful Windows 8 apps. How to sell your apps in the Windows 8 Store and make money. And much more. Join us on the Microsoft Campus for 4 days of extraordinary presentations delivered by the engineers behind the products and services to get you up to speed.

Continuous services are rapidly emerging as essential ingredients of the portfolios of packaged software development and IT organizations. Continuous services enable organizations to extend the reach of their products and services at an internet scale. Whether investing in a new online delivery model...

Office and SharePoint 2013 offer a lot of exciting new opportunities for the developer. This session will provide an overview of the new developer features for Office and SharePoint including apps, the new cloud app model, additional APIs for SharePoint full trust solutions and new features for the Office...

Discover how you can use Windows 8 to get players addicted to your game. Engage your players from the Windows 8 Start Screen with live tiles and notifications . Grow your community of players by sharing between games and other apps. Learn about modern gameplay interactions with new input options like...

What’s new in Workflow? Where’s Workflow headed? Come learn about the Windows Workflow Foundation capabilities in .NET 4.5 and the new Workflow Manager 1.0, including support for SharePoint Server 2013 & Office 365 workflows. You’ll hear from the team about where we’ve been investing and what we’re...

Windows Phone 8 dramatically expands the ways in which developers can build applications and games, by adding several new programming models, and also expanding the application model to support a broader set of developer scenarios. Andrew will explore these in depth and give you the information you need...

Learn how to build great shopping apps for Windows 8. You can draw users into your app, with live tiles and notifications for things like deals and sale items. Your content shines in your app without any chrome, and enables users to be immersed in the experience that they care about.

Windows 8 is Windows reimagined. To that end, Microsoft developed five principles that drove the experience design decisions for Windows 8. This talk will describe each of these principles and how they relate to each other. It will also give you concrete guidance on how to apply these principles...